Cold Read Program 18/19

MARCH 7 - 10, 2019

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COLD READ KICK-OFF

A lively cast of Stage board members, stakeholders, and community leaders “cold read” a comedy script. Syracuse Stage artistic director Robert Hupp directs. Thursday, March 7, Reception: 6:30 p.m., Reading: 7:30 p.m., Archbold Theatre.

UNDER CONSIDERATION

Join us for a reading of a new play that is under consideration for an upcoming season. April Sweeney, theatre department chair at Colgate University, will direct a cast of professional actors in a reading of the new play Admissions by Joshua Harmon. Audience talkback follows.

Friday, March 8, Reading: 7:30 p.m., Archbold Theatre.

WRITE HERE

Bob Hupp directs a reading of a new play by local playwright Tanner Efinger in this brandnew event, featuring the work of a promising Syracuse writer. Talkback with playwright and director follows. Saturday, March 9, Reading: 11 a.m., Archbold Theatre.

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ew work hot from the imaginations of some of the freshest voices writing for the theatre today.

Syracuse Stage presents its 2019 Festival of New Plays by hosting playwrights, a solo performer, and professional actors and directors for four days of exciting events.

SOLO ACT

An intimate workshop production of a new piece by renowned comedian and solo artist Marga Gomez, directed by Adrian Alexander Alea, followed by an intriguing talkback with the playwright and director. Saturday, March 9, Performances at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., SALTspace, 102 Wyoming St., Syracuse.

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A first-ever reading of a play in-progress by award-winning playwright Larissa FastHorse.

The professional cast is directed by Melissa Crespo (Native Gardens). A talkback with playwright and director follows. Sunday, March 10. Reading: 3 p.m., Archold Theatre.

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PRESENTS

F E S T I VA L C U R AT O R

Kyle Bass PRODUCTION

S TA G E M A N A G E R S

S TA G E M A N A G E R

Audrey Flynn Jackson Norman†

Em Piraino

Robert Hupp

Jill A. Anderson

Kyle Bass

Artistic Director

Managing Director

Associate Artistic Director

ADDITIONAL CREDITS Assistant Stage Managers: Lia Chapman†, McKenna Vargas† Production Assistant: Marilyn Wechsler† PRESENTING SPONSOR

SPONSOR

SEASON SPONSORS

† Student, Syracuse University Department of Drama.

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CELEBRATING FRESH VOICES IN PLAYWRITING AN INT E RV IE W W IT H FESTI VAL CU R ATO R KY L E BAS S

BY ANDY JACO BS O N The 2019 Cold Read Festival is as much a celebration of fresh voices in playwriting as it is an exceptional opportunity to be a part of the playwright's process. When Cold Read curator and associate artistic director Kyle Bass launched the four-day festival last year, he wanted to dedicate a space for audiences and artists alike to experience brand new plays in the making.

AJ: Tell us about the Cold Read Festival. What makes you most excited about what this event brings to the table?

KB: Last year’s Cold Read Festival was our first, and I was really interested in creating a first meaningful gesture for Syracuse Stage to start developing new work, supporting new artists, and producing new plays.

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a pretty good start! What excites me about the upcoming Cold Read is that we have Larissa FastHorse coming to join us. She’s committed, serious, and an exciting multifaceted artist who brings a deep interest in the lives and cultures of indigenous peoples. We also have Marga Gomez coming from the West Coast to be working on a solo piece, one that has real personal

connections to and about her. I’m also excited by a new addition called Write Here, which will feature the reading of a new play by a local playwright; Tanner Efinger will be joining us for this exciting new event.

AJ: You mentioned a handful of wonderful artists featured in the Festival. Can you talk a little bit about why it’s important that the Cold Read supports their voices? Why now?

KB: What I’ve been doing from the very beginning is focusing on voices that we don’t hear enough of, especially in upstate New York. These are playwrights of color, of indigenous backgrounds, trans voices, etc. – these are people and playwrights who have stories to tell. When someone in America tells their story, they’re telling the story of all of us in some way. That’s why I find myself supporting [diverse] writers, because identity is [all we have]. The importance of who gets to tell what stories and whose stories get told is deeply interesting to me. I wanted to reach beyond the western white male canon, reach beyond those voices and bring other voices to the Cold Read Festival.

AJ: Was there any theme or style that you found yourself gravitating towards during the programming process?

KB: One of the great things about the Cold Read Festival is that it doesn’t have the same kind of financial or income burdens that our season has – these aren’t large productions, they’re workshops of new plays. So I don’t look for a theme, I research the writer, their work, and their intentions, in the hopes that somewhere down the road we can present work in the same vein. We want to demystify the new play process and the idea of new plays because the idea of attending a show by a playwright they’ve never heard of can be challenging for audiences. So, when we do perhaps get around to doing a Larissa FastHorse play, the audience already knows her, has been in conversation with her, and now has some sense of ownership of her work. If there is a theme, it’s having the audience be a part of the process.

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in our season was a big one. Syracuse Stage has six shows, but our shops build for eleven to twelve with the addition of the Syracuse University Department of Drama – quite an astonishing feat for an outfit of our size. I have to imagine, create, and curate something that will be manageable for our staff, kind to our budget, and still has integrity. We’re doing it out of a real interest in new work, but the main challenge lies in giving it a place where the Cold Read Festival isn’t an afterthought. Rather, it’s something fully realized that we offer within our season. That was the core idea from the very beginning and it still is now. I think we’ve found a way to make it work.

AJ: What do you hope the community takes away from the Cold Read?

KB: I hope that the community is eager, accepting, and excited about new plays; taking with them a kind of hunger and thirst about new work.

Andy Jacobson is a Theatre Management major at Syracuse University from Walnut Creek, California.

KICK-OFF

PRESENTS A READING OF

ALL IN THE TIMING BY

David Ives DIRECTED BY

Robert Hupp Words, Words, Words was first produced at the Manhattan Punch Line Theatre in New York City, in January 1987, Steve Kaplan, Artistic Director | Sure Thing was first produced at the Manhattan Punch Line Theatre in New York City, in February 1988, Steve Kaplan, Artistic Director. | Philip Glass Buys A Loaf of Bread was first produced at the Manhattan Punch Line Theatre in New York City, in January 1990, Steve Kaplan, Artistic Director. | Variations on the Death of Trotsky was first produced at the Manhattan Punch Line Theatre in New York City, in January 1991, Steve Kaplan, Artistic Director. | The Philadelphia was first produced at the 1992 New Hope Performing Arts Festival, presented

by The New Hope Arts Commission, New Hope, Pennsylvania, Robin Larsen, Executive Director. | The Universal Language was first produced by Primary Stages Company in New York City, in November 1993, Casey Childs, Artistic Director. | All in the Timing, Six One-Act Plays is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

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CAST

(in order of production) Sure Thing Bill.....................................................John Huhtala Betty.....................................................Julia Martin The Philadelphia Mark........................................................Neil Gold Al........................................................Fran Nichols Waitress...............................................Robin Curtis Words, Words, Words Swift....................................................Fran Nichols Kafka...............................................Sharon Sullivan Milton....................................................Rick Shirtz Mere Mortals Charlie................................................Jill Anderson Frank.....................................................Molly Ryan Joe..................................................Stacey Emmons Singular Kind of Guy Mitch.....................................................Phil Turner English Made Simple Jack....................................................John Huhtala Jill.........................................................Carrie Berse Loudspeaker..........................................Kathy Kelly Variations on the Death of Trotsky Trotsky...............................................Darvin Varon Mrs. Trotsky........................................Robin Curtis

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ALL IN THE TIMING CAST Jill A. Anderson. Jill’s artistic expression usually takes the form of Excel spreadsheets, and tonight’s experience may affirm that decision. Despite star turns as the “big carrot” in a first-grade skit, “a little girl” in Annie Get Your Gun in second-grade, and later as the alien-obsessed titular character in A Night With Doris, Jill entered college determined to be a stage manager. After a mentor arranged an “audition by ambush” with an accompanist waiting around a corner, Jill took on her most recent acting role, a temperance-loving schoolmarm in The Portable Pioneer and Prairie Show, 20 years ago this spring. Coincidentally, Jill’s work as a stage manager kicked off with a Minneapolis production of All in the Timing, making tonight a special treat.

Stacey Emmons stage debut was with the show Culture Class. And her cat Raven was in the show The Lieutenant of Inishmore. I am grateful and honored to be reading for the Stage’s offering of Cold Read.

Neil Gold has appeared in Newburgh, in Wonderful Town, Plaza Suite, and How the Other Half Loves; at the Elmwood Playhouse in Nyack in Witness for the Prosecution and The Man Who Came to Dinner; on Long Island in Rumors and Bermuda Avenue Triangle, and in Syracuse in The Real Inspector Hound and The Laramie Project. Neil is thrilled to be appearing in Cold Read, where the odds are really good that he will not forget any lines.

John Huhtala is a proud Syracuse Stage board member and works for Chase bank as Market Executive for Central New York. He is very excited to be making his second Cold Read appearance. John’s acting experience was mainly as a cast member in the 4th Wall Actors Workshop in NYC from 2008 to 2011, studying with Laurence Gewirtz. John is married to Kimberly and has three beautiful daughters, which is all the drama he needs.

Carrie Berse has appeared at Syracuse Stage before, singing the commercials for several Old Time Radio Theatre productions. Her theatrical debut came in the 4th grade, cast as the lead in the school musical because she was the only student who could be heard beyond the stage.

She continues to be loud today.

Robin Curtis is a happy Stage Trustee, Dedicated Associate Broker Hunt Real Estate Era, Proud Rep homebuilder Zellar Homes, Former Actress: Star Trek III and IV, The Next Generation, Murder She Wrote, Equalizer, Night Court, Knight Rider and MacGyver.

Lover of theatre, film and travel.

Kathy Kelly is honored to be in this production with “Fellow [aspiring] Thespian Board Members,” and in a play directed by Bob Hupp! Kathy’s’ acting career began as a singer throughout elementary, middle, and high school, when she finally had a

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ALL IN THE TIMING CAST leading role as Abigail in The Crucible – remembered, most likely, only by her. Kathy, a retired Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, has been known to say that, as the Health Educator for 17 years at Manlius Pebble Hill School, she felt that every 80-minute class was a new “stage” with a new audience. Bless all of the teachers who engage our children! Finally, Kathy is grateful for her husband Len Weiner, and their daughters, Lyndsey and Kelsey, for sharing her love of theatre, films, and life!

tan Syracuse YMCA Board, Board member of McHarrie Life Foundation (a senior living community) and a volunteer for SCORE. Enjoy tonight’s show.

Molly M. Ryan appeared in several student-written plays at Colgate University, including an iconic performance as a French maid, which was hopefully not recorded in any form whatsoever. Nevertheless, these roles prepared her well for life as a Goldberg Segalla trial attorney where she is regularly part of the drama in courtrooms across New York. She is also a soccer player, tennis player, and member of the Board of Trustees of Syracuse Stage. She would like to thank her husband and daughter for their support of her Syracuse Stage debut.

Julia Martin got her start on the stage at age 4 as a Hershey Kiss in her preschool Christmas pageant.

You may also recall her performance as Stowaway #4 in her high school’s production of Anything Goes. Last year she made her Syracuse Stage debut in Act One as part of the Cold Read Festival. Since that time, Julia has practiced reading aloud with her two children, who are a much more raucous audience than most. Julia is a newly elected member of Bousquet Holstein and serves on the Board of Trustees for Syracuse Stage.

Rick Shirtz was first chair trumpet in his high school band from 1972 to 1975. From 1973 to 1975 he spent summers marching with The Auburn Purple Lancers Drum & Bugle Corp. In 1974 and 1975 he was a stagehand in the Bishop Ludden Production of Bye Bye Birdie. After high school, it was all business for Rick! His only performance recently has been playing a monster when his grandchildren want to be chased.

Fran Nichols is a former Chair of the Syracuse Stage Board and is Vice Chair Emeritus of Eric Mower and Associates, a marketing and communications firm with offices in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, New York City, Boston, Cincinnati, Charlotte, and Atlanta. He is the Vice Chair of the Metropoli-

Sharon Sullivan saw her first play, Kismet, in a summer theatre tent at age 7. “Thanks, Mom.” She’s been hooked on the theatre ever since.

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ALL IN THE TIMING CAST Sharon’s first acting experience was playing the Blessed Virgin in the Christmas play when she was in 8th grade. As a college sophomore, she played a Salvation Army “dancer”; neither one was a speaking part, as she remembers. Sharon’s first big break was at Syracuse Stage when she had a speaking part in The Women with Bob Moss as director. After many more years, she appeared in last year’s Cold Read Kick-Off reading of Act One with Bob Moss again directing. Sharon still loves the theatre, but, considering her spotty acting career, it seems she’s making her real career in the audience.

union has blessed them with three children and six grandchildren. Pastor Turner has had extensive experience in sales, marketing, counseling, and administration in large corporations and small businesses. He has held recording contracts with Warner Brothers and Fourth & Broadway, a division of Island Records.

He feels that the greatest resources for relevant and effective ministry are God’s Word, Spiritual gifts, and life experience Darvin Varon paid his acting dues as a young man in New York City for 14 years. Last two times he graced Syracuse Stage was last year as an honored participant in Cold Read, having fun reading Act One and as a rabbi in the 2002 production of The Dybbuk. Otherwise, he studied and did a bunch of stuff throughout the years, on and off. Having supported himself as a psychiatrist, he still anxiously awaits his big break.

If you look hard, you can see him in Splash, overacting and eating a pretzel at about minute 45.

Rev. Phil M. Turner is Pastor of Bethany Baptist Church in Syracuse. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee. At the age of ten, he and his family moved to Buffalo, New York where they became active members of Holy Temple Church of God In Christ. During his time as a student at State University of New York at Cortland, Pastor Turner met and married Janice Flanagan. Their

A L L I N T H E T I M I N G P L AY W R I G H T David Ives is perhaps best known for his evening of one-act plays, All in the Timing (he has been included in the “Best Short Plays” series seven times), and for his dra-

ma Venus in Fur, which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. His plays include New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch De Spinoza; The School For Lies (adapted from Molière’s The Misanthrope); The Liar (adapted from Corneille); 8

A L L I N T H E T I M I N G P L AY W R I G H T Time Flies; and Is He Dead? (adapted from Mark Twain). He has also translated Feydeau’s A Flea in Her Ear and Yasmina Reza’s A Spanish

Play. A former Guggenheim Fellow in playwriting and a graduate of The Yale School of Drama, he lives in New York City.

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UNDER CONSIDERATION PRESENTS A READING OF

ADMISSIONS BY

Joshua Harmon DIRECTED BY

April Sweeney Admissions is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Originally produced by Lincoln Center Theater, New York City, 2018. The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production or distributing recordings on any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the author’s rights and actionable under United States copyright law. For more information, please visit: https://shop.samuelfrench.com/content/files/pdf/piracy-whitepaper.pdf *Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. † Student, Syracuse University Department of Drama.

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(in order of appearance) LeeAnne Hutchison*..........................Sherri Rosen-Mason Dori Legg*.............................................................Roberta Kathy McCafferty*........................................Ginnie Peters Chris Hatch*.....................................................Bill Mason Zachary Pearson†.............................Charlie Luther Mason ADMISSIONS CAST Chris Hatch (Bill Mason) is excited to be back at Syracuse Stage having last been seen as Rochefort in last season’s production of The Three Musketeers. Regional credits include work at Indiana Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Lyric Opera, and the Utah, Indianapolis, and Heart of America Shakespeare Festivals. Recent credits include playing Rochefort (again) in a production of The Three Musketeers at Shea’s 710 Theatre and Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing for Shakespeare in Delaware Park in Buffalo. Along with his work as an actor, he is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY.

ed by Austin Pendleton; Septimus and Clarissa by Ellen McLaughlin (premiere); Alternating Currents (Urban Stages, premiere); Sam’s Romance (premiere); Alas The Nymphs (BAM premiere). Regionally: A Streetcar Named Desire (with Joe Manganiello, WV Public Theater); August: Osage County (Arkansas Rep); Sex With Strangers (The Kitchen Theater and GEVA); Clybourne Park (Arkansas Rep); Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Shaker Bridge Theater, NH); The Underpants (White Heron Theater, Nantucket). Off-Off-Broadway: Nomad Theatrical Company’s The Third Policeman (La Mama); Orpheus (with Taylor Mac, at HERE); Innocents (directed by Rachel Dickstein); Ibsen’s Ghosts (Access Theater); Tom Stoppard’s Dogg’s Hamlet/Cahoot’s Macbeth (Phoenix Ensemble); Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good (The Culture Project); I Want What You Have (The Women’s Project). Film: One Fall; Brewsie and Willie. Television: “Jessica Jones”

LeeAnne Hutchison (Sherri Rosen-Mason), Selected credits: OffBroadway: Tennessee Williams’ A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur direct-

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ADMISSIONS CAST (Netflix) and “The Other F Word” (www.thegirlfriend.com). Graduate of Smith College, and Recipient of The Charles Bowden Award from New Dramatists, NYC.

TV: Good Girls Revolt, Homicide, Law&Order: SVU, Law&Order CI, As the World Turns, Late Night with Conan O’Brien.

Kathy McCafferty (Ginnie Peters) just finished an Off- Broadway run of Trick or Treat starring Gordon Clapp at 59E59 Theaters. Recent credits include: John Cleese’s Bang Bang! (American premiere) opposite Sean Astin, Regina in The Little Foxes (PBDW), 1st National Broadway Tour of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time directed by Tony Award winner Marianne Elliott; Dada Woof, Papa Hot at Lincoln Center. Selected Regional: The Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Huntington Theatre, The Ahmanson Theatre, Palm Beach Drama Works, Portland Stage, Shadowland Stages, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Arkansas Repertory Theatre TV/ Film: House of Cards, 30 Rock, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Dates Like This, The Onion News Network.

Dori Legg (Roberta). New York: The Short Fall (Toy Box Theatre), Shaving the Pickle (Origin Theatre). Regional: Noises Off, Vanya Sonya Masha and Spike (Syracuse Stage); Other Desert Cities (Syracuse Stage/ Portland Center Stage); Last Night of Ballyhoo (Bay Street Theatre); August: Osage County, Enchanted April, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Prides Crossing, Glorious (Fulton Opera House); The Diary of Anne Frank (Delaware Theatre); Barefoot in the Park (Two River Theatre); The Women (Arena Stage); Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Melissa Arctic (Folger Theatre); This Beautiful City (Humana Festival); Recent Tragic Events (Wooly Mammoth-Helen Hayes Nomination); A Christmas Carol (Ford’s Theatre); Radiunt Abundunt, Snow Queen, Brother Wolf (Triad Theatre); Durang,Durang, The Women (Studio Theatre); Season’s Greetings, Escape from Happiness (RoundHouse Theatre); Great Expectations, Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe, Christmas at the Old Bull and Bush, Sherlock Holmes… Purloined Letter, (Interact Theatre) Parallel Lives (Metro Stage).

FILM: The Daft Penquin, El Camino, Double Negative, Guilty As Charged.

Zachary Pearson (Charlie Luther Mason) is a junior acting major from Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. Assistant Director: Jack or The Submission (Studio Project) Actor: The Children’s Hour (Studio Project), The Domestic (Queen Doris Productions), A Scarlet Letter (Edinburgh Fringe), Dry

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ADMISSIONS CAST Land (Independent), Much Ado About Nothing (Black Box Players) and The House of the Spirits (Depart-

ment of Drama mainstage). Upcoming: Good Kids (Department of Drama mainstage). @zachpear12

A D M I S S I O N S P L AY W R I G H T Joshua Harmon. Plays include Admissions (Lincoln Center Theater; Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, Outstanding Play), Bad Jews (Roundabout Underground; Roundabout/Laura Pels; West End), Significate Other (Roundabout; Broadway/Booth Theatre), and Skintight

(Roundabout). His plays have been produced across the country and internationally in Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Russia, South Africa, and throughout the U.K. Fellowships include MacDowell, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and NNPN/ Actor’s Express. He is under commission from Manhattan Theatre Club.

Education: Juilliard.

ADMISSIONS DIRECTOR April Sweeney is an actress and theatre director who has performed internationally in theatres and festivals in Europe (Belgium, France, Hungary) and Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica). In the U.S. she has performed in regional theatre, a national tour, off-Broadway and downtown NYC theatre over the past fifteen years.

Projects include performances at P.S 122, The Kitchen, Under the Radar, La Mama etc, BOOM Arts, Montana Repertory Theater, and Arkansas Repertory Theater. As a director she has developed She, and the Empty Living Room (NYC), Atar-

decer 43 Teatro Comunitaria (Villa Traful, Argentina), A Short Play for 3 Spanish Speaking Actresses Stuck in a Cherry Orchard & Contemplations on a 4 Minute Macbeth (WILLALDEA), and HamiltonNY created with Saviana Stanescu. As a creative producer she has developed two series with her local community: International Stages 2016-2017, a contemporary play reading series exploring three post-millennial works dealing with themes of crisis and A Year in the Life with You: THEATER DOCUMENTS (2018), a hybrid docutheatre performance series connecting four artists to their local communities to explore a question, document, skill or obsession. Other

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ADMISSIONS DIRECTOR directing projects include PMURT, a performance lecture (Vooriut, Ghent, Be) and several directed and devised pieces with the Department of Theater at Colgate University including the North America premiere of Federico León’s 1500 Meter’s Above Jack’s Level and Erin Courney’s Map of Virtue. In 2017-18 she was awarded a National Endowment of the Arts

Literature Translations Collaboration Fellowship with Brenda Werth.

April is currently an Associate Professor of Theater at Colgate University and member of Actors’ Equity Association. She is delighted to be working with Syracuse Stage for their Cold Read Festival and helping to support the dissemination of new works.

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WRITE HERE PRESENTS A READING OF

THE PICTURE OF OSCAR WILDE BY

Tanner Efinger DIRECTED BY

Robert Hupp CAST

(in alphabetical order) Basil Allen.................................Henri de Tolouse-Laurtrec Garrett Heater.................................................Oscar Wilde Anthony James Hernandez†...Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas Lilli Komurek..........................................Constance Wilde Simon Moody........................................Ernst/Queensbury † Student, Syracuse University Department of Drama.

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THE PICTURE OF OSCAR WILDE CAST Basil Allen (Henri de Tolouse-Laurtrec) is a longtime native of upstate New York. He has appeared onstage with Syracuse Shakespeare, Syracuse Opera, the Central New York Playhouse, and other local theatre troupes. His latest gig was acting in Almost, Maine at the Redhouse. When not performing, Basil has worked intermittently as part of run crew at Syracuse Stage; this has been his thirteenth season in that capacity. His next acting project will be as Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

stage in Metamorphan (Bank of America Children’s Tour), I Have Loved Strangers (Black Box Players), and The Seagull (Department of Drama, mainstage). He has acted in several short films including The Cameraman, JJ in Dobbs, and Repent. This spring he will be in Good Kids and is currently in rehearsal for a production performing this August at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He also loves writing music and playing guitar.

Garrett Heater (Oscar Wilde) is the artistic director of Syracuse Summer Theatre at the Oncenter and the former artistic director of The Covey Theatre Company. Previous roles include the Emcee (Cabaret, SST), Princeton (Avenue Q, Covey) and Cinderella’s Prince (Into the Woods, Cazenovia College). He is the author of Lizzie Borden Took an Axe, Playing God, The Romanovs, and Lincoln’s Blood. Three of these original works were produced at the New York International Fringe Festival – FringeNYC.

Lilli Komurek (Constance Wilde) is an awardwinning actress, director, and Syracuse, NY native.

She recently appeared in Redhouse Arts Center productions of Almost, Maine as Glory/Marci, Big Fish as Sandra,The Secret Garden as Lily, Into the Woods, Make Me A Song, and Cortland Repertory Theater’s Footloose. Lilli stages the Fayetteville-Manlius High School musicals and is active in the local homeschooling community.

Regional credits include Trina in Falsettos, Adelaide in Guys and Dolls, the Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods, Amalia in She Loves Me, Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Songs For a New World, and Steel Magnolias.

Anthony James Hernandez (Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas) is thrilled to be reading the part of Bosie.

As a B.F.A. acting major, he has performed on

Simon Moody (Ernst/ Queensbury) has been immersed in theatre for nearly 40 years and has performed on stages in Australia and CNY. He

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THE PICTURE OF OSCAR WILDE CAST has been honored to receive TANYS awards for ‘Excellence in Acting’ (Benedick – Much Ado About Nothing; Petruchio – The Taming of the Shrew) and numerous SALT award nominations, including the SALT Award for ‘Best Supporting Actor in a Musical’ (Patsy – Spamalot). Recent

notable performances include Van Helsing – Dracula; Polonius – Hamlet; Paravicini – The Mousetrap; and Julius Caesar, for which he was nominated for the SALT Award for ‘Best Leading Actor in a Play’. Simon recently appeared in CNY Playhouse’s Nevermore, playing Captain Nimrod.

T H E P I C T U R E O F O S C A R W I L D E P L AY W R I G H T Tanner Efinger is the Artistic Director of Breadcrumbs Productions. He is a theatre maker, arts advocate, and community organizer and has worked professionally throughout the US and UK as a performer, director, educator, producer, and writer. Original works include Marie & The Nutcracker Prince (Producer/Performer), Unearthing Mary Bixby (Producer/Performer), The Picture of Oscar Wilde (Writer), 1918 (Writer/Director), A Christmas Carol Retold (Director/Performer), High As Sugar (Writer/ Performer), and While They Were Away (Performer). Other regional and international credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oxford University Press), Hamlet (Boston Theatre Company), The Marriage of

Figaro (Boston Lyric Opera), Footloose & Rough Crossing (Cortland Repertory Theater). In the past few years he has taught devised theatre at LeMoyne College, Shakespeare programs at Oxford University, as well as various improvisational theatre and acting classes with numerous schools and organizations. Tanner is the co-owner of Wunderbar, a new queer bar and theatre in Syracuse, which aims to open soon! He proudly sits on the Board of Directors for CNY Pride, the Arts Committee for the Near Westside Initiative, and is the co-founder of Syracuse Guerrilla Gay Bar. His long term goal is to help develop Central New York as a place for artists and queer people to migrate to because of the depth of opportunity. For more information, please visit www.tannerefinger.com or www.breadcrumbsproductions.com

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SOLO ACT PRESENTS A WORKSHOP PERFORMANCE OF

THE SPANKING MACHINE BY

Marga Gomez DIRECTED BY

Adrian Alexander Alea CAST

Marga Gomez

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T H E S P A N K I N G M A C H I N E P L AY W R I G H T Marga Gomez is the GLAAD Award and LA Theater Ovation Award winning writer/performer of 12 solo plays which have been presented at The Public Theater, La Mama ETC, Dixon Place, Highways, Bootleg Theater, nationally and internationally.

The SF Weekly named Gomez one of “2016’s Artists To Watch.” Huffpost named her an “Agent of Change” in 2015. She has been described as “deliciously cheeky and incendiary” by the New York Times. She was an original member of the Latino ensemble Culture Clash. Her acting credits include Off-Broadway and national productions of The Vagina Monologues with Rita Moreno and Vicki Lawrence and roles in HBO’s Tracey Takes On... and Warner Brothers film’s Batman Forever and Sphere. Gomez can be seen in season two of the Netflix series Sense 8. Marga Gomez also tours nationally as a stand-up comedian and is known for being one of the first openly lesbian performers in the business. She has appeared on LOGO’s One Night Stand Up, Showtime’s Latino Laugh

Festival, Comedy Central’s Out There and HBO’s Comic Relief at the invitation of Robin Williams who called her “Amazing… a lesbian Lenny Bruce.”

She has been a guest on leading comedy podcasts Marc Maron’s WTF, The Keith and The Girl Show and Kevin Allison’s Risk. She has been featured at numerous comedy festivals including SF Sketchfest, Montreal’s Just For Laughs, South Beach Comedy Festival, Vancouver Comedy Festival and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Marga also teaches solo performance in classes and online and is a tenured Artist-in-Residence at Brava Theater, San Francisco. Selections from Gomez’s work have been published in several anthologies including Extreme Exposure (TCG Books), HOWL (Crown Press), Out Loud & Laughing (Anchor Books), Contemporary Plays by American Women of Color (Routledge), When I Knew (Harper-Collins) and Out of Character (Bantam Books.) She was born in New York City to entertainers in the Latino community and currently resides in San Francisco. Her website is margagomez.com

THE SPANKING MACHINE DIRECTOR cused on diversity, community, and social justice. Adrian’s experience spans between the commercial and nonprofit industries of theatre, live events, and music videos. Most recently, Adrian directed Fucking A by SuzanLori Parks at Yale and is produc-

Adrian Alexander Alea is a creative director and producer based in NYC and Chicago with a passion of exploring the human condition through story-telling and entertainment fo21

THE SPANKING MACHINE DIRECTOR ing and directing a stage adaptation of Cristina Garcia’s critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Dreaming in Cuban featuring music and lyrics by Ibeyi. He is also associate directing a new Disney staged musical in development. Other recent assistant directing credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park), Kill Move Paradise (National Black Theater), Venus (Sig-

nature Theatre), Alice By Heart (musical workshop at MCC), and The Odyssey (Public Works). Before returning to NYC, he was a management associate for The Medina Company. His main projects included Jennifer Lopez’s Las Vegas Residency: All I Have and the “Ain’t Your Mama” music video. He holds a B.A. from Columbia University and M.S. from Northwestern University. Website: adrianalea.com

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DRAFT/PAGES PRESENTS A READING OF

[WORKING TITLE]

THE DAKOTA PROJECT BY

Larissa FastHorse DIRECTED BY

Melissa Crespo CAST

(in alphabetical order) Chris Hatch* LeeAnne Hutchison* Isabella Star LaBlanc Dori Legg* Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr.* *Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

March 10, 2019

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THE DAKOTA PROJECT CAST Chris Hatch is excited to be back at Syracuse Stage having last been seen as Rochefort in last season’s production of The Three Musketeers.

Regional credits include work at Indiana Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Lyric Opera, and the Utah, Indianapolis, and Heart of America Shakespeare Festivals. Recent credits include playing Rochefort (again) in a production of The Three Musketeers at Shea’s 710 Theatre and Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing for Shakespeare in Delaware Park in Buffalo. Along with his work as an actor, he is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY.

(Shaker Bridge Theater, NH); The Underpants (White Heron Theater, Nantucket). Off-Off-Broadway: Nomad Theatrical Company’s The Third Policeman (La Mama); Orpheus (with Taylor Mac, at HERE); Innocents (directed by Rachel Dickstein); Ibsen’s Ghosts (Access Theater); Tom Stoppard’s Dogg’s Hamlet/Cahoot’s Macbeth (Phoenix Ensemble); Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good (The Culture Project); I Want What You Have (The Women’s Project). Film: One Fall; Brewsie and Willie. Television: “Jessica Jones” (Netflix) and “The Other F Word” (www.thegirlfriend.com). Graduate of Smith College, and Recipient of The Charles Bowden Award from New Dramatists, NYC. Isabella Star LaBlanc is a Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota actress based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

In 2017, Isabella was one of twelve selected nationally for CBS’s inaugural Drama Diversity Casting Initiative. She has appeared in a number of independent films including Missy Whiteman’s “The Coyote Way: Going Back Home” courtesy of the Sundance Native Film Lab. Onstage, Isabella has worked with many of Minnesota’s premiere theatre companies including: The Children’s Theater Company, Guthrie Dowling Studio and Minnesota History Theatre. Most recently, Isabella was seen at The

LeeAnne Hutchison, Selected credits: OffBroadway: Tennessee Williams’ A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur directed by Austin Pendleton; Septimus and Clarissa by Ellen McLaughlin (premiere); Alternating Currents (Urban Stages, premiere); Sam’s Romance (premiere); Alas The Nymphs (BAM premiere). Regionally: A Streetcar Named Desire (with Joe Manganiello, WV Public Theater); August: Osage County (Arkansas Rep); Sex With Strangers (The Kitchen Theater and GEVA); Clybourne Park (Arkansas Rep); Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune

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THE DAKOTA PROJECT CAST Jungle Theater as Beth March in the world premiere of Kate Hamill’s Little Women, and #00 in the regional premiere of The Wolves.

Law&Order: SVU, Law&Order CI, As the World Turns, Late Night with Conan O’Brien.

Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr. is artistic director of Civic Ensemble, a regional theatre in Ithaca, NY. For Civic, he directed Eugene O’Neill’s All God’s Chillun Got Wings and coproduced Judy Tate’s Slashes of Light.

Godfrey was producing artist in charge of New Artist Development for Off-Broadway’s Epic Theatre Ensemble, appearing in A More Perfect Union, Widowers’ Houses (which Godfrey co-adapted with Ron Russell), A Hard Heart, Measure for Measure, and most recently the world premiere of Jim Wallert’s The Winning Side, among many others. At Epic, he also co-wrote and starred in a documentary play about the election of President Barack Obama, Dispatches From (A)mended America. Godfrey is a 2012 TCG/Fox Fellow and a participant in the SPARK Leadership Program, funded by American Express, The Joyce Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered

by Theatre Communications Group.

He is a lifetime member of Ensemble Studio Theatre. He has taught acting at Marymount Manhattan College and Binghamton University, and is currently Senior Lecturer in Cornell University’s Department of Performing and Media Arts.

Dori Legg. New York: The Short Fall (Toy Box Theatre), Shaving the Pickle (Origin Theatre). Regional: Noises Off, Vanya Sonya Masha and Spike (Syracuse Stage); Other Desert Cities (Syracuse Stage/Portland Center Stage); Last Night of Ballyhoo (Bay Street Theatre); August: Osage County, Enchanted April, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Prides Crossing, Glorious (Fulton Opera House); The Diary of Anne Frank (Delaware Theatre); Barefoot in the Park (Two River Theatre); The Women (Arena Stage); Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Melissa Arctic (Folger Theatre); This Beautiful City (Humana Festival); Recent Tragic Events (Wooly Mammoth-Helen Hayes Nomination); A Christmas Carol (Ford’s Theatre); Radiunt Abundunt, Snow Queen, Brother Wolf (Triad Theatre); Durang,Durang, The Women (Studio Theatre); Season’s Greetings, Escape from Happiness (RoundHouse Theatre); Great Expectations, Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe, Christmas at the Old Bull and Bush, Sherlock Holmes… Purloined Letter, (Interact Theatre) Parallel Lives (Metro Stage).

FILM: The Daft Penquin, El Camino, Double Negative, Guilty As Charged.

TV: Good Girls Revolt, Homicide,

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T H E D A K O T A P R O J E C T P L AY W R I G H T Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota) is an awardwinning playwright. Larissa’s produced plays include The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons, Artists Rep), What Would Crazy Horse Do? (KCRep, Relative Theatrics), Urban Rez (Cornerstone Theater Company, ASU Gammage, NEFA National tour 2019-20), Landless and Cow Pie Bingo (AlterTheater), Average Family (Children’s Theater Company of Minneapolis), Teaching Disco Squaredancing to Our Elders: a Class Presentation (Native Voices at the Autry), Vanishing Point (Eagle Project), and Cherokee Family Reunion (Mountainside Theater). Additional theatres that have commissioned or developed plays with Larissa include Yale Rep, History Theater, Kennedy Center

TYA, Baltimore Center Stage, Arizona Theater Company, Mixed Blood, Perseverance Theater Company, The Lark Playwrights’ Week, the Center Theatre Group Writer’s Workshop, and Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor. Larissa’s awards include the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award for an American Playwright, NEA Distinguished New Play Development Grant, Joe Dowling Annamaghkerrig Fellowship, AATE Distinguished Play Award, Inge Residency, Sundance/Ford Foundation Fellowship, Aurand Harris Fellowship, the UCLA Native American Program Woman of the Year, and numerous Creative Capital, Ford, Mellon, and NEA Grants. Larissa is the vice chair of the board of directors of Theater Communications Group. She is represented

by Jonathan Mills at Paradigm NY. www.hoganhorsestudio.com

THE DAKOTA PROJECT DIRECTOR Melissa Crespo is a New York City based director of theatre, opera, and film. She has developed new work at The Lark, Atlantic Theater Company, Two River Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ars Nova, Labyrinth Theater Company, and more. Upcoming: world premiere of Daughters of the Rebellion by Guadalís del Carmen at Montclair State University.

Recent credits include: In the Red and Brown Water by Tarell Alvin Mc-

Craney (Columbia Graduate Acting), Wickedest Woman by Jessica Bashline (Strange Sun Theatre), graveyard shift by Korde Arrington Tuttle (San Francisco Playhouse), Pedro Pan by Rebecca Aparicio and Stephen Elkins (NYMF), In the Blue Hour by Martina Potratz (Lil’ Explosions), Brother Toad by Nathan Louis Jackson (Kansas City Repertory Theatre), The Review or How to Eat Your Opposition by Donnetta Lavinia Grays (WP Theatre), eat and you belong to us by mj kauffman (NYU Tisch School

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THE DAKOTA PROJECT DIRECTOR for the Arts); ¡Figaro! (90210) by Vid Guerrerio (The Duke on 42nd Street & LA Opera), ABC Talent Showcase (Disney NYC), Destiny of Desire by Karen Zacarías (Garden Theatre), Tar Baby by Desiree Burch with Dan Kitrosser (seen at 59E59, Edinburgh, London, Finland, and New Zealand).

Fellowships and Residencies: Time Warner Fellow (WP Theatre), Usual Suspect (NYTW), The Director’s Project (Drama League), Van Lier Directing Fellow (Second Stage Theatre), and the Allen Lee Hughes Directing Fellow (Arena Stage). http://www.melissacrespo.com

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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/DIRECTOR Robert Hupp is in his third season as artistic director of Syracuse Stage.

He recently directed Noises Off, Next to Normal, and The Three Musketeers for Stage. Prior to coming to central New York, Robert spent seventeen seasons as the producing artistic director of Arkansas Repertory Theatre in Little Rock. He directed over 30 productions for Arkansas Rep ranging from Hamlet to Les Miserables to The Grapes of Wrath. In New York City, Robert directed the American premieres of Glyn Maxwell’s The Lifeblood and Wolfpit for the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble. He also served for nine seasons as the artistic director of the Obie Award-winning Jean Cocteau Repertory. At the Cocteau, Robert’s directing credits include works by Buchner, Wilder, Cocteau, Shaw, Wedekind and the premieres of the Bentley/Milhaud version of Brecht’s

Mother Courage and Her Children, Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy, and Eduardo de Filippo’s Napoli Millionaria. He has held faculty positions at Pennsylvania’s Dickinson College and, in Arkansas, at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Hendrix College. Robert served as vice president of the Board of Directors of the Theatre Communications Group and has served on funding panels for the New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, the Theatre Communications Group, the New Jersey State Council of the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. While in Arkansas, Robert was named both Non-Profit Executive of the Year by the Arkansas Business Publishing Group, and Individual Artist of the year by the Arkansas Arts Council.

He and his wife Clea ride herd over a blended family of five children, one dog, and two cats.

MANAGING DIRECTOR O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. During her tenure, the O’Neill completed a $7 million capital campaign and campus expansion, doubled its operating budget, and was honored with a 2015 National Medal of Arts and the 2010 Regional Theatre Tony Award. Under the O’Neill’s aegis, Jill also developed the Baltic Playwrights Conference, an annual international new play development retreat held

Jill A. Anderson has served as managing director of Syracuse Stage since 2016. Jill is responsible for Stage’s nearly $6.5 million operating budget and has oversight of fundraising, marketing, and operational matters within the organization.

Prior to joining Stage, Jill spent a decade as general manager at the Eugene 30

MANAGING DIRECTOR in Hiiumaa, Estonia. Previously, Jill spent five years in the production office at Washington, D.C.’s Arena Stage, after working as a stage manager in Minnesota, New Mexico, and Massachusetts. In addition to her work at Stage, Jill is an instructor in the Theater Management program of the Syracuse University Department of Drama, building on her work with high school and college students elsewhere, includ-

ing at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Jill was recognized as part of the Central New York Business Journal’s “40 Under Forty” awards in 2017 and has served on numerous municipal and non-profit boards. Jill is a proud cheesehead, hailing from Marshfield, Wisconsin.

She and her husband Dave Anderson, along with their daughter, are pleased to call Central New York home.

A S S O C I AT E A R T I S T I C D I R E C T O R / F E S T I VA L C U R AT O R Kyle Bass is the author of Possessing Harriet, commissioned by the Onondaga Historical Association, which received its world premiere at Syracuse Stage earlier this season, and is currently the Burke Endowed Chair for Regional Studies at Colgate University. A two-time recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (for fiction in 1998 and playwriting in 2010), a finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Award, and Pushcart Prize nominee, Kyle’s full-length plays include Tender Rain, The Faith of our Fathers, and Bleecker Street. Separated, a piece of documentary theatre about the student military veterans at Syracuse University was presented at Syracuse Stage and at the Paley Center in New York, directed by Robert Hupp. Kyle is the co-author (with Ping Chong) of Cry for Peace: Voices from the Congo, which

had its world premiere at Syracuse Stage and was subsequently produced at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York City. Kyle’s one-act plays include Fall/Out, Theory of Night, Love is a Blue Velvet Box, Spoons, Northeast, and The Cutaneous Rabbit Illusion.

Kyle has begun writing a new fulllength play: Lakeview, which is set in a small city situated between a large university and a sacred but troubled body of water, and on the verge. As dramaturg, Kyle worked with acclaimed visual artist Carrie Mae Weems on her theatre piece Grace Notes: Reflections for Now, which had its world premiere at the 2016 Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina, subsequently produced at Yale Rep and the Kennedy Center. As a screenwriter, Kyle is the co-author of the original screenplay for the film Day of Days (Broad Green Pictures, 2017), which stars award-winning veteran actor Tom Skerritt, and he is the author of 31

A S S O C I AT E A R T I S T I C D I R E C T O R / F E S T I VA L C U R AT O R the screenplay adaptation of the novel Milk by Darcy Steinke. Kyle has been commissioned by the Society for New Music to write the libretto for an opera based on the life and music of legendry folk singer and guitarist Libba Cotten. Kyle’s plays and other writings have appeared in the journals Callaloo, Folio, and Stone Canoe, among others, and in the essay anthology Alchemy of the Word: Writers Talk about Writing. He is drama editor for the journal

Stone Canoe, teaches playwriting in Syracuse University’s Department of Drama, theatre courses in the Department of African American Studies, has been guest lecturer in playwriting at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, and was faculty in the M.F.A. Creative Writing program at Goddard College from 2006 to 2018. Kyle holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Goddard College, and is a proud member of the Dramatist Guild of America.

WHO WE ARE Syracuse Stage is the non-profit, professional theatre company in residence at Syracuse University. We are nationally recognized for creating stimulating theatrical work that engages Central New York, and for our significant contribution to the artistic life of Syracuse University, where we are a vital partner in achieving the educational mission of the University’s Department of Drama.

OUR MISSION Syracuse Stage tells stories that engage, entertain, and inspire us to see life beyond our own experience.

OUR VISION Reimagining what's possible for regional theatre–through active inclusion, innovative outreach, and bold productions–Syracuse Stage shapes the culture and social vitality of Central New York, enriches the Syracuse University student experience, and fosters change in ourselves, our communities, and our world.

O U R C O R E VA L U E S People - Actively including diverse individuals, communities, ideas, and perspectives.

Passion - Commitment to integrity, excellence, and enthusiasm in our work.

Curiosity - Fostering an innovative and adaptive environment that elicits wonder.

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A B O U T S Y R A C U S E S TA G E Originally constructed as the Regent Movie House in 1914, the physical space of Syracuse Stage has seen many films, musicians, actors and artists pass through its doors over the course of the past century. The Syracuse Stage that exists today is a non-for-profit professional theatre company founded in 1974, and a longstanding League of Resident Theatres (LORT) member. Since its inception, Stage has produced over 300 shows, both plays and musicals, within its walls. Now, Stage produces six to seven shows per season, while also offering educational programs to students, various pre- and post-show events, and fundraising events each year. Stage is Central New York’s only LORT theatre and one of the largest performing arts organizations in the area. Stage has a strong commitment to giving the community access to a range of high-quality productions; it is equally committed to bringing in actors, designers and directors who are among the leading theatre professionals, both locally and across the nation.

INDIGENOUS LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Syracuse Stage acknowledges with respect the Onondaga Nation, firekeepers of the Haudenosaunee, the indigenous people on whose ancestral lands we now stand.

IN THE COMMUNITY Stage has collaborated with a myriad of institutions in the Syracuse area. Community partners include AccessCNY, ARC of Onondaga, ARISE, ArtRage, CNY Reads, Interfaith Works of Central New York, La Casita, McMahon / Ryan Child Advocacy Center, Onondaga Historical Association, Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park, SUNY Upstate Medical University, the VA Medical Center, and Vera House.

Additionally, the educational department collaborates with many CNY schools.

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Suzanne McAuliffe Retired Educator Rod McDonald Bond, Schoeneck & King Samantha Millier Associate Attorney Mackenzie Hughes LLP Molly Mulvihill VP, Market Manager Enterprise Business & Community Engagement Bank of America Fran Nichols Chair Emeritus, Syracuse Stage Eric Mower + Associates Marc Nichols Executive VP & General Counsel SAAB USA, LLC. Virginia Parker Retired Educator Annette Peters Marketing Director Syracuse Media Group Kendall Phillips Associate Dean, Global Academic Programs and Initiatives Syracuse University Amir Rahnamay-Azar Chief Financial Officer Syracuse University Molly Ryan Partner, Goldberg Segalla LLP Robert Sarason Retired Lawyer, Organizer, Fundraiser L. John Steigerwald IV Marketing and Sales Representative Cathedral Candle Company Cora Thomas Radio Host and Office Manager, WAER Michael S. Tick Dean, College of Visual and Performing Arts Syracuse University Ralph Zito** Chair Syracuse University Department of Drama Michael Zoanetti VP Senior Wealth Advisor Tompkins Financial Advisors **Ex-Officio

S Y R A C U S E S TA G E S TA F F Artistic Director.............................................................................................................Robert Hupp Managing Director.....................................................................................................Jill A. Anderson Associate Artistic Director....................................................................................................Kyle Bass

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Director of Production Operations...........................................................................Don Buschmann Associate Director of Production Operations..........................................................Dianna Angell Company Manager/Production Management Assistant..............................................Brian Crotty Production Management Apprentice...................................................................Audrey Flynn Facilities Student Assistants..............Rachel Ackerman, Hector Aguirre and Marilyn Wechsler Technical Director..................................................................................................Randall Steffen Assistant Technical Director............................................................................Rebecca Schuetz Scene Shop Foreman...........................................................................................Michael King Carpenters.............................................Brian McBurney, Cheyenne McBurney, John Gamble Graduate Assistant................................................................................................Joshua Baker Student Assistants..........................................................................................Garett Pembrook Scenic Charge Artist...........................................................................................Holly K. LaGrow Assistant Scenic Artist...........................................................................................Phillip Dyke Graduate Assistants.......................................................................................Louise Thompson Props Supervisor.....................................................................................................Mary Houston Props Carpenter...............................................................................................Jordan Michaud Props Artisan....................................................................................................Jessica Culligan Props Graduate Assistant........................................................................................Drew Davis Student Assistants.....................................................................Shannon Bagoly, Logan Shiller Costume Shop Manager..........................................................................Gretchen Darrow-Crotty Assistant Costume Shop Manager/Drama Department Costume Coordinator.....Mallory Kay Nelson Cutter-Drapers.................................................................Catherine Hennessy, Kathryn Rauch First Hand.........................................................................................................Victoria Lillich Stitchers.......................................................................................Emily King, Katelyn Yonkers Craftsperson/Shopper.........................................................................................Sandra Knapp Wardrobe and Wig Supervisor.................................................................................Sarah Stark Student Assistants..................................................................................................Xinglan Yan Lighting and Projection Supervisor..................................................................David M. Bowman Electrician…….......................................................................................................Jed Daniels Electrics Journeyman/Board Operator...............................................................Anastasia Sioris Electrics Apprentice..........................................................................................Caitlin Weinelll Student Assistants..........................................................Ian Borowik, Aria Sivick, Adrian Yuen Resident Sound Designer/Audio Engineer......................................................Jacqueline R Herter Assistant Audio Engineer/Board Operator......................................................Kevin O’Connor Sound Apprentice...........................................................................................Alexandra Brock Production Stage Manager....................................................................................Stuart Plymesser Stage Manager..............................................................................................Laura Jane Collins

Stage Management Journeymen..................................................Erin C Brett, Em Piraino

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S Y R A C U S E S TA G E S TA F F A D M I N I S T R AT I V E S TA F F

General Manager....................................................................................................Michael McCurdy Comptroller..............................................................................................Mary Kennett Morreale Human Resources Manager/Business Associate.......................................................Kathy Zappala Student Business Office Intern................................................................Emilia Smart-Denton Director of Information Management & Technology...................................Garrett Wheeler-Diaz Box Office Managers......................................Laurie Lindsey, Courtney Richardson, A'Isha Shanes Box Office Assistants.................................Marjon Ardehali, Abby Cieslewski, Chidube Egbo, Jordan McKey, Makenzie Nickerson, Canab Sheekh Nuur, Chelsea Perez, Samoya Peters, Lexie Smuchynsky, Mary Storholm, Olivia St. Peter Box Office Intern..............................................................................................Margot Correa Audience Services Manager........................................................................................Jacob Ellison Audience Services Assistant.................................................................................Ella Lafontant Assistant House Manager......................................................Patricia Condello, Donna Stuccio Student Assistant House Managers.................Valeria Berdecia, Manda Borden, Jackson Norman Claire St. Marie, McKenna Vargas, Marilyn Wechsler Bartenders...........Daisha Abdillahi, Meg Pusey-Anthis, Michelle Cannizzo, Evan Starling-Davis Student Ushers.......................Summer Ainsworth, Gabriel Arbelo, Haley Ayers, Alana Barker, Blake Brewer, Anju Cloud, Ashley Collado, Ella Coste, Juliette Geraghty, Olivia Herz, Ellie Kallay, Calvin Keener, Clare Kenny, Dylan King, Jaelle LaGuerre, Kerri McAneney, Grace Morgan, Maria Polanco, Denise Romero, Eli Shwartz, Charles Curtis Towle III, Damon Williams, Haley Wright Director of Development...............................................................................................Tina Morgan Development Manager.......................................................................................Stefania Ianno Development Assistant.................................................................................Elizabeth Gardner Director of Education & Community Engagement.......................................................Joann Yarrow Associate Director of Education.............................................................................Kate Laissle Community Engagement and Education Assistant...................................MiKayla Hawkinson Education Assistant...................................................................................................Len Fonte Education Intern.......................................................................................Brianna Stankiewicz Director of Marketing and Communications..............................................................Joseph Whelan Group/Corporate Sales Manager..........................................................................Tracey White Marketing Manager...........................................................................................Joanna Penalva Patron Campaign Specialist.........................................................................Nori Gartner-Baca Graphic Designers.................................................................Jonathan Hudak, Brenna Merritt Group Sales Assistant........................................................................................Amanda Kurey Student Group Sales Assistant.............................................................................Lia Chapman Marketing Interns...........................................................Cara Christian, Lyle Andrew Michael Executive Assistant..................................................................................................Rebecca Li Grady Artistic Student Intern.................................................................................................Andy Jacobson Sign Language Interpreters....................Brenda Brown, Jim Brown, Aaron Burton, Angelo Coppola, Mikki Evans, Sue Freeman, Joanne Jackowski, Zenna Preli, Trisha Schwartz, Ryan Wight Open Captioning...................................................................................................Michael McCurdy Audio Description...................................................................................Kate Laissle, Joseph Whelan Community Services Officers.......................................................Stacey Emmons, Joseph O'Connor Custodians.............................................................................Kitty Ashby, Les Edwards, Tony Rogers

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